{"id":1294,"date":"2016-09-09T09:23:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T09:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldwomanfoundation.com\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2016-09-09T09:23:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T09:23:45","slug":"u-s-women-win-world-cup-get-stiffed-by-fifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwomanfoundation.com\/cannesagenda2025\/u-s-women-win-world-cup-get-stiffed-by-fifa\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Women Win World Cup, Get Stiffed By FIFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. women\u2019s soccer team defeated Japan on Sunday to win the World Cup. For their dominant performance, the team will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/0\/football\/30562216\">collect $2 million from FIFA<\/a>, the international body that runs the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The championship prize for women pales in comparison to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/12\/05\/us-soccer-world-prizemoney-idUSBRE9B40QG20131205\">$8 million in prize money<\/a> awarded to men\u2019s teams who lose in the first round. Every men\u2019s team was awarded $1.5 million just for participating<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>FIFA, which generates billions in revenue, also forced women \u2014 but not the men \u2014 to play this year\u2019s World Cup <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/sports\/2015\/06\/08\/3667111\/concerns-mount-artificial-turf-hits-120-degrees-womens-world-cup\/\">on artificial turf<\/a>. This not only increased the risk of injury, but also increased temperatures on the field by 20-30 degrees. During tournament, field temperatures <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/sports\/2015\/06\/08\/3667111\/concerns-mount-artificial-turf-hits-120-degrees-womens-world-cup\/\">reached 120 degrees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of top players filed a <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/sports\/2014\/10\/01\/3574803\/womens-soccer-players-file-gender-discrimination-lawsuit-against-fifa-canadian-soccer-association\/\">gender discrimination lawsuit against FIFA<\/a> in Canadian court, citing the artificial turf issue. The case was dropped when it became clear FIFA would not change the field surface <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/soccer\/2015\/01\/21\/womens-world-cup-artificial-turf-lawsuit\/22111983\/\">even if they lost<\/a>. FIFA did agree to play the 2019 women\u2019s World Cup on grass.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. women\u2019s team has won the World Cup three times. The U.S. men have never won the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. women\u2019s soccer team defeated Japan on Sunday to win the World Cup. For their dominant performance, the team will collect $2 million from FIFA, the international body that runs the tournament. The championship prize for women pales in comparison to the $8 million in prize money awarded to men\u2019s teams who lose in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwomanfoundation.com\/cannesagenda2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwomanfoundation.com\/cannesagenda2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwomanfoundation.com\/cannesagenda2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwomanfoundation.com\/cannesagenda2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwomanfoundation.com\/cannesagenda2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwomanfoundation.com\/cannesagenda2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwomanfoundation.com\/cannesagenda2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwomanfoundation.com\/cannesagenda2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwomanfoundation.com\/cannesagenda2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}